Garden City High School - Mast Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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E TW TROJANS In Ancient Times: A 4 Zeus, the chief Oympian God was the ancestor of the Trojans. Electra, a daughter of A tlas, bore Zeus a son, Dardanus, who built the citadel of Troy and who founded the line of Trojan Kings. In the third and second millena B. C. Troy stood as a strong and prosperous cultural center in the area that is now the country of Turkey. Strong physical specimens, the determined Trojans persevered to defend their city for ten years before the beseiging Greeks could defeat them through the use of treachery and deception in the form of the famed Trojan H orsev. After the destruction and leveling of the cigf, Aeneas a noble Trojan survivor, was directed by the gods to found the cigf ofRome. . A 4 A In Modern Times: 1 A I' . A A Dissatisjied with thename Maroons', for their athletic teams, students in G. C. H. S. in March of 1944 voted on a new name. Maroons was the name of one of two intramural athletic organizations within the school and was used by several other schools on the-Island, so it was felt that a new name was needed. . ' j f The balloting, .in which every student had a vote, indicated a strong pref- erence for Trojans . Other names considered were Bombersv, Pio- neers , Eagles , and Gunners . Since 1944, plaques, athletic equipment, booster buttons, activities posters, class rings, and yearbooks have proudhf displayed Trojan heads, helmets and horses. A . X 'S L . -. L... ,..Me.:..SL.L....x . A-.. --.. -..,. ,QL . E

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